Lard substitute.



..Products Company of New "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL B. GRAHAM AND RALPH E. KIRKHAM, 0F BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.

LARD SUBSTITUTE.

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" Be it known that we, EARL B. GRAiIAM and RALPH E. KmKHAM, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Bellingham,

in the county of Whatcom and State of Washington have invented a certainnew and useful following is aspecification.

Our composition consists of the following ingredients: beef oilobtained, from rendering beef suet, and Argo oil obtained from Indiancorn as manufactured bthe Corn These materials we combine in thefollowing proportions: beef oil 2 parts and Argo oil 3 parts. r

We prefer to use the following method in "combining these materials:Selected beef suet is rendered in an open kettle and the oil separatedfrom the solids b straining and pressing. When the beef oi is still hotthe Argo oil is added in the above proportion, the temperature of thecombination being about*240 F. Then the mixture is Specification 01Letters Patent.

llard Substitute, of whichthe.

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Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed December 14, 1916. Serial No. 136,894.

cooled to about 95 F. and placed in a mechanical agitator and agitateduntil it. falls to a temperature of about 85 F. The material isthenremoved from the agitator and placed in the containers in which it histo be sold; said containers remaining uncovered for about IO hours. Saidfilled containers are then sealed, or simply covered, and are ready formarket.

Having this fully described our new composition, what we claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent is, I

The combination of beef oil and corn oil in the proportion of 2 parts ofsaid beef oil and 3 parts of said Argo oil.

.Signed at Bellingham, in the county of Whatcom and State of Washingtonthis 9th day of December, A. D. 1916.

EARL B. GRAHAM. RALPH E. KIRKHAM. Witnesses:

1 A. J. Rooms,

R. S. SmrsoN.

